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Can I enter this competition with a 140kg 1RM (even though I haven't tested it after 4 weeks off of training though think I'll smash it) even though I will be FAR from winning, I wouldn't mind challenging someone around my strength...
It would be good if the mod's could put up a thread of whose lifting what -
For example;
Deadlift category 1 (140kg - 160kg)
Deadlift category 2 (160kg - 180kg)
Deadlift category 3 (180kg - 200kg)
etc etc. . .
And as they improve they move up in category's and challenge other people...
But then again what would I know - Afterall I deadlift 120kg 3x8 loll
I don't get why a powerlifter would want to gain weight. Get into the lowest weight class possible and only move up if your strength gains make you - this isnt bodybuilding.
I don't get why a powerlifter would want to gain weight. Get into the lowest weight class possible and only move up if your strength gains make you - this isnt bodybuilding.
To an extent. Obviously if you're 6'4 and lifting in the 67.5kg class there are problems to be had but for most natties in the 82.5 or 90kg class (or whatever IPF is nowadays) at 8-10% I couldn't see a need to go above that.
A lot of the best powerlifters (coan comes to mind) were shit lean. Just an observation but I think theres a few on here who'd know better than me.
Yes, but matt kroc, ed coan, kirk kawoski and konstantin konstantinovs are all shit lean, 10-12%. Their records might be different if they had an extra 20kg of blubber on them.
He competed from 82.5 all the way to 110 (even 75 I think) and did as well / has world records in all of those classes, he was probably best at 100. The pic you posted was him at 90.. that said I've seen some footage of him at 100+kg pretty f u cking lean.. Ed is god